Punch, Volume 133Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman Punch Publications Limited, 1907 - Caricatures and cartoons |
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... wish , " concluded PRENDERBY , with a fine touch of modesty- " I do not wish to appear swollen - headed , but I confess that I cannot contemplate my country's place among the nations without a pardonable satisfaction . Surely we can ...
... wish , " concluded PRENDERBY , with a fine touch of modesty- " I do not wish to appear swollen - headed , but I confess that I cannot contemplate my country's place among the nations without a pardonable satisfaction . Surely we can ...
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... wishes to be regarded as failing his country in the hour of need . Mr. HALDANE may term this " purely voluntary enlistment , " but other can take his turn at the bath in the morning . 66 Greedy . " Lady , having small Bungalow , would ...
... wishes to be regarded as failing his country in the hour of need . Mr. HALDANE may term this " purely voluntary enlistment , " but other can take his turn at the bath in the morning . 66 Greedy . " Lady , having small Bungalow , would ...
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... wish I was less constitu- tionally shy , indeed , almost morbidly self - conscious . But , as Mr. BAX observes , non - conformity in dress often involves a serious moral discipline . No one was ever the worse for that . Resolved to make ...
... wish I was less constitu- tionally shy , indeed , almost morbidly self - conscious . But , as Mr. BAX observes , non - conformity in dress often involves a serious moral discipline . No one was ever the worse for that . Resolved to make ...
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... wishes at times that the bottle could be shaken ; but we pre- scribe it without hesitation to all who can take romance by sips , instead of the usual spasmodic gulp . HARRISOR 1906 derella , she is actu- ally writing , under a pseudonym ...
... wishes at times that the bottle could be shaken ; but we pre- scribe it without hesitation to all who can take romance by sips , instead of the usual spasmodic gulp . HARRISOR 1906 derella , she is actu- ally writing , under a pseudonym ...
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... wishes to thank many friends . cat of all colours is a common object First of all he would mention Lord of the country side . From an inter- and Lady DE CONQUE , whose hospi- esting talk which I had with a most tality at Bridge Nasal he ...
... wishes to thank many friends . cat of all colours is a common object First of all he would mention Lord of the country side . From an inter- and Lady DE CONQUE , whose hospi- esting talk which I had with a most tality at Bridge Nasal he ...
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Page 182 - Oh ! young Lochinvar is come out of the west, Through all the wide Border his steed was the best ; And save his good broadsword he weapons had none, He rode all unarmed and he rode all alone. So faithful in love and so dauntless in war, There never was knight like the young Lochinvar.
Page 182 - I sprang -to the stirrup, and Joris, and he; I galloped, Dirck galloped, we galloped all three; "Good speed!" cried the watch, as the gate-bolts undrew;
Page 31 - ... when they shall recreate their exhausted strength with abundant and untaxed food, the sweeter because it is no longer leavened with a sense of injustice.
Page 270 - AN old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king ; Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who flow Through public scorn — mud from a muddy spring ; Rulers, who neither see, nor feel, nor know.
Page 376 - Myself not least, but honour'd of them all; And drunk delight of battle with my peers, Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy. I am a part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethro' Gleams that untravell'd world, whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move.
Page 14 - Down the broad valley fast and far The troubled army fled ; Up rose the glorious morning star, The ghastly host was dead.
Page 182 - I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I know not where ; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I know not where...
Page 182 - A SENSITIVE PLANT in a garden grew, And the young winds fed it with silver dew. And it opened its fan-like leaves to the light, And closed them beneath the kisses of night.
Page 198 - No criticism of trifles can leave in doubt the great distinction of her craftsmanship. Very certainly she must have made her reputation by this book, if it had not been already won."— Punch (London). MAY SINCLAIR'S THE DIVINE FIRE A story of a London poet. 13th printing. $1.50. " In all our new fiction I have found nothing worthy to compare with * The Divine Fire.
Page 205 - ... is generous, tolerant, and ungrudging, then, instead of thinking the circle in which one lives inadequate, confined, and unsympathetic, one gets the best out of it, and sees the lovable side of ordinary human beings. Such friendships as these can evoke perhaps the best and simplest kind of loyalty. It is said that in countries where oxen are used for ploughing in double harness, there are touching instances of an ox pining away, and even dying, if he loses his accustomed yoke-fellow. There are...